McCain for President — WASHINGTON — Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left …

Final bill on the Barackopolis: $5.3 million — Keep this figure in mind when people claim that the $150,000 the RNC spent on Sarah Palin's wardrobe represents some kind of frivolity. At least she's going to wear the clothes more than once, and it may raise some decent funds for charity at the end of the campaign.

Breaking Down the Battleground States — McCain Faces an Uphill Battle in Eight Key States Up for Grabs — Election Day often comes down to the results of a few crucial battleground states where key electoral votes can hold the key to the White House. — In 2000, that battleground was certainly Florida.

Regular Needs Children — It's nice, I suppose, that Sarah Palin's experience raising a special needs child has awakened her to the importance of generous public support for such children. And it'd also be nice to think that John McCain's embrace of this issue reflects a genuine Palin-inspired awakening …

11 Days Out, And The Whispering Begins — Call it a circular firing squad, or internal dissension, or simply the natural evolution of a campaign that is disappointed with how the endgame is playing out. — There's a faction within the McCain campaign has begun to whisper about Gov. Sarah Palin to reporters.

Was McCain volunteer attacked over bumper sticker? — Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old volunteer for the McCain-Palin campaign, has told Pittsburgh police she was mugged and then targeted for further attack on account of her political beliefs. — The alleged attack happened Wednesday night, at a local ATM.

Bill Ayers to Release New Edition of Memoir, After Nov. 4th — Bill Ayers may have been a radical leftist “domestic terrorist” back in the day, but it doesn't mean he's above making a buck now. Beacon Press in Boston plans to release a new edition of Ayers's 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, on November 12.

New Allegations in Mahoney Sex Scandal — Current and former members of the staff of Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-Fla) say he has yet to come completely clean about his multiple affairs, abusive behavior and alleged ethical lapses. — Last week, following a series of reports on The Blotter …

How's Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion? — The Democrat's tax and spending plans deserve closer examination. — The most troublesome tax increases in Barack Obama's plan are not those we can already see but those sure to be announced later, after the election is over and budget realities rear their ugly head.

A Happiness Gap: Doomacrats And Republigrins — Now the good news for Republicans: You are happier than Democrats. You always have been, and you probably always will be. — Never mind that your presidential candidate is sinking in the polls while your president plumbs historic depths …

Group's Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated — On Oct. 6, the community organizing group Acorn and an affiliated charity called Project Vote announced with jubilation that they had registered 1.3 million new voters. But it turns out the claim was a wild exaggeration …

Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad — With despair rising even among many of John McCain's own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering—much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

New InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position poll: Georgia a tossup — 10/24/08) A new InsiderAdvantage / Poll Position survey shows Georgia is a toss-up state in both the U.S. Senate and presidential campaigns. — In the presidential race, Barack Obama has a slight edge over John McCain, although it is within the margin of error.

1&1 Internet Has Allowed My Domain to Be Hijacked — The company “1&1″ has allowed my domain, patterico.com, to be hijacked. — Look up at the address bar. This is still the Patterico site — but I no longer have the patterico.com domain — even though I renewed it before the expiration date.

Everybody's Voting for the Weekend — BY Nov. 4, more than $5 billion will have been spent trying to persuade voters to cast their presidential and congressional ballots one way or another. Despite all the money and the news media hysteria, and even with record numbers of Americans heading to the polls …

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